Adylkuzz Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Spreading

FrgMstr

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"Good" malware is the kind the person is not even aware of, right? And "good" malware prevents the spread of other malware, right? The ProofPoint website has a write-up on the Adylkuzz malware, that is much like the WannaCry RansomWorm in that it spreads the same way. Instead of holding your data hostage in hopes of you giving up some Bitcoin in order to get your data back, Adylkuzz installs cryptocurrency mining software on your machine to farm its own Monero cryptocurrency. Adylkuzz is spreading using both the EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits.
Over the subsequent weekend, however, we discovered another very large-scale attack using both EternalBlue and DoublePulsar to install the cryptocurrency miner Adylkuzz. Initial statistics suggest that this attack may be larger in scale than WannaCry, affecting hundreds of thousands of PCs and servers worldwide: because this attack shuts down SMB networking to prevent further infections with other malware (including the WannaCry worm) via that same vulnerability, it may have in fact limited the spread of last week’s WannaCry infection.

It seems that Adylkuzz has been in the wild since before we all got the WannaCry RasomWorm wake up call, possibly since April 24th. So you may be into Monero cryptocurrency mining and you are not even aware of it. See how easy mining is to get into? From what ProofPoint is citing in its article, I would guess that Adylkuzz is going to be much more successful on the money front than WannaCry.
 
Seriously, we all knew this was coming and the moment I saw the thread title this was what instantly popped into my consciousness:

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We'll probably see a flood of such malware coming in because of what the NSA and other agencies have wrought with their technological developments. Fuck 'em, deep, hard, in the ass multiple times with the pens the President uses to sign the damned executive orders. :D
 
Hmm what if it was foldingAThome instead... think of the massive amount of computional power you could harness for such a program
 
Wish I knew enough about coding to write something like this. I'd write a piece that finds vulnerable systems, takes over and installs the patch for the exploit, then removes itself. Just for shits-n-giggles.
 
I doubt I can be convinced there is any "good" malware. Its my computer and my resources to be used how I see fit.
 
Wish I knew enough about coding to write something like this. I'd write a piece that finds vulnerable systems, takes over and installs the patch for the exploit, then removes itself. Just for shits-n-giggles.

Would sure be nice if someone did that! Would be easy enough I think, but yah don't get payyeeddd.
 
Seriously, we all knew this was coming and the moment I saw the thread title this was what instantly popped into my consciousness:

It_Has_Begun.jpg


We'll probably see a flood of such malware coming in because of what the NSA and other agencies have wrought with their technological developments. Fuck 'em, deep, hard, in the ass multiple times with the pens the President uses to sign the damned executive orders. :D

How is a Microsoft software development team failing to find a bug/vulnerability the governments fault?
 
Would sure be nice if someone did that! Would be easy enough I think, but yah don't get payyeeddd.

Perhaps I'd throw a pop-up on screen when it's finished patching saying "hey stupid, I patched your shit. you're welcome." or something. The warm, fuzzy thought of pissing off a couple of lazy IT admins by doing their job for them would be all the payment I need. :p
 
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